Glass Spheres, Metal Festival

Although on occasion there were disagreements among those attending and teaching at the Bauhaus School of Art and Design, there were also moments of respite. This photograph by Walter Funkat, then a student at the Bauhaus, depicts a sphere that reflects the “Metal Festival” at the school, held in February 1929. Guests entered the party through a long metal slide into rooms decorated with dangling metal and glass orbs.